Spontaneous formation of carbon dots helps to distinguish molecular fluorophores species
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T1 - Spontaneous formation of carbon dots helps to distinguish molecular fluorophores species
AU - Gómez, I. Jénnifer
AU - Vazquez Sulleiro, Manuel
AU - Pizúrová, Naděžda
AU - Bednařík, Antonin
AU - Lepcio, Petr
AU - Holec, David
AU - Preisler, Jan
AU - Zajickkova, Lenka
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - Carbon dots (CDs) display photophysical features that appear similar, if not identical, despite the variety of synthesis protocols used to obtain them. The unique design of CDs toward the desired properties requires an exhaustive understanding of the structure itself. This work offers a fundamental insight into the structure and formation of the carbon dots that allows distinguishing the existence of molecular fluorophore species. Remarkably, density functional theory calculations of the elucidated structures support the spontaneous formation of a compact network of molecular species. In addition, as a proof-of-principle, our work comprehensively studies the photoluminescence properties (i.e., concentration, pH and solvent dependencies), which pave the way for developing CD-based logic gate fluorescent sensors.
AB - Carbon dots (CDs) display photophysical features that appear similar, if not identical, despite the variety of synthesis protocols used to obtain them. The unique design of CDs toward the desired properties requires an exhaustive understanding of the structure itself. This work offers a fundamental insight into the structure and formation of the carbon dots that allows distinguishing the existence of molecular fluorophore species. Remarkably, density functional theory calculations of the elucidated structures support the spontaneous formation of a compact network of molecular species. In addition, as a proof-of-principle, our work comprehensively studies the photoluminescence properties (i.e., concentration, pH and solvent dependencies), which pave the way for developing CD-based logic gate fluorescent sensors.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141489768&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.155536
DO - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.155536
M3 - Article
VL - 610.2023
JO - Applied surface science
JF - Applied surface science
SN - 0169-4332
IS - 1 February
M1 - 155536
ER -